God's Battalions, the case for the crusades, by Rodney Stark, part I WLNC101

"God's Battalions, the case for the crusades, by Rodney Stark
sociology of Religion
Christian Beliefs and anti-Semitism (1966) with Charles Y. Glock
American Piety (1968) with Charles Y. Glock
The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult formation (1985), with William Sims Bainbridge
A Theory of Religion (1987), with William Sims Bainbridge
Religion, Deviance, and Social Control (1996), with William Sims Bainbridge
The Churching of America 1776-1992: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy (1992), with Roger Finke; 2nd edition under name The Churching of America 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy (2005)
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996)
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (2000), with Roger Finke
One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism ISBN 978-0-691-11500-9 (2001)
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Exploring the Religious Life ISBN 0-8018-7844-6 (2004)
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The Rise of Mormonism (2005) ISBN 0-231-13634-X
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome (2006)
Discovering God: A New Look at the Origins of the Great Religions
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades General Sociology
Sociology an introductory college sociology text that has been through ten editions as of 2007.
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John Lofland and Rodney Stark Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective American Sociological Review of 1965. (an early and influential conversion theory based on the observations of the thinly disguised then little known Unification Church)[9]
Rodney Stark and Williams Sims Bainbridge (1979) Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18, no 2: 117-33
Stark, R., "Fact, Fable and Darwin" in One America, September 2004; Part 1 in [2] and Part 2 [3]
A Taxonomy of Religious Experience in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1965 [4]
Additional biographical source: Rodney Stark. "On Theory-Driven Methods." pp. 175--196 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press,"
Quelle: youtube.com/watch?v=0CenBk5QXjk